Instructor — Brandon Levi opened Evolution Muay Thai after competing in both Australia and Thailand and training in New York and London. With over 20 years experience in Muay Thai, Boxing, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and even Karate, Brandon has a wealth of knowledge to pass on to his students.

Instructor — Garry St. Leger has spent nearly his whole life perfecting his skills as a Judoka. An Olympic alternate in 2008, Garry is a 3 time National Champion and 3 time Pan-American medalist. As a 2010 world team member, he has competed against and trained with some of the absolute best Judo players on the planet. While still competing at the top level in Judo, Garry has begun to branch out into Mixed Martial Arts.

Instructors — Gene Kobilansky, one of New York University’s most decorated wrestlers, is the assistant coach of the NYU Wrestling program and currently working with the team’s middleweights. During his NYU career, Kobilansky earned University Athletic Association (UAA) Rookie of the Year honors, UAA Most Outstanding Wrestler accolades as a senior, was a three-time National Wrestling Coaches’ Association Scholar All-American and UAA All-Academic honoree, an 11-time UAA Athlete of the Week selection, and was the only three-time NCAA Championships qualifier in NYU program history.

Basics — generally, techniques will be organized along one theme (various ways of using one movement, for example, or various ways of responding to one attack), and enough time will be given to each technique so that beginners can start to become familiar with it;

Chief instructor — Kru Nestor Marte. He has over 20 year of experience in training and fighting in Bangkok, the Province of Kohrlat and in New York City. He has been privileged to train at the top Muay Thai Camps in Bangkok: Kiet Bong Chong, Kari Boy, Sak Mon Tree as well as Southern Thailand’s best camps; Petch Nueng Reung, Sit-Or and the world famous Sithpholek and Sityod-Tong.

Kru Nestor Marte is a considered a leading expert in the art of stand up fighting. When MMA fighters such as Renzo Gracie, Ricardo Almeida, Ryan Gracie, Anderson Silva, and Assuerio Silvaand Israel Gomes needed to train their stand up, they sought out Kru Nestor Marte to brush up on their technique.

Clifford Francois — He started Muay Thai in 2013 for fun and fitness at first but quickly fell in love with the sport. Cliff did his first smoker at Chok Sabai a year later and has fought actively since. In 2014, he became the gym manager and in 2015, he started his instructor certification and was certified after many hours of apprenticeship with Kru Natalie;

Wendy Lau — She is a physician (ER doc) who started training Muay Thai in medical school in 2007 for fitness and stress relief but ended up loving it so much that she started competing. She still trains with the fight team regularly and goes on the Chok Sabai Thailand trip every year. She is also a meditation and yoga teacher and currently teaches public yoga and meditation classes and a fight-team-only meditation class at Chok Sabai;

Lev Borukhov — Lev teaches Work & Play and is an assistant Muay Thai coach.

Jo-anne Lees — She is a professional dancer and certified Pilates instructor (through the PhysicalMind® Institute). More recently, she was also certified as yoga instructor through Virayoga (now Twisted Trunk Yoga) after being a yoga student for many years. She teaches both Pilates and yoga classes at Chok Sabai;

Lev Borukhov — Lev teaches Work & Play and is an assistant Muay Thai coach. He is a physical therapist with a Doctorate of Physical Therapy from New York Institute of Technology. He started Movement Minded Physical Therapy with the mission to spend more time with his patients by providing full one-hour one-on-one sessions — without the time constraints of a big office practice.

15 minute warm-up — 3- three minute rounds of jumping rope followed by a few squats, push-ups, AB work (sit-ups), and a light stretch;

training — we start off with shadow boxing, then we pair up. One person holds the focus mitts while the other works on various drills, for instance; we can start with a left jab, right hand, left hook. You want to do these drills for a few minutes while the other holds the pads. Then we alternate. In between rounds, we jump into some exercise routines, so we can keep the heart rate up and burn calories while learning proper techniques;

cool down — after were done with the workout, we take a few minutes to cool down with some light exercises and stretches.